yellow light

Example Sentences

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Nevertheless, employers understandably saw the warning as a yellow light, if not a flashing red light.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Still, candlelight casts a genuine spell with its yellow light and deepened shadows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

One TikTok trend I will begrudgingly support is putting a soft yellow light behind a television to give it a halo effect, but only for television shows, and preferably scripted ones.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2025

You will sit through the entire green light cycle, shoot through the yellow light just before it turns red, and I now sit through another light cycle.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2024

“I put down a spider,” he said, wondering why the man didn’t see; in the beam of yellow light the spider bloated up larger than life.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick